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tinten @am HAUSE, OF TECUMSEIL'MICHIGA.

Lette/rs Patent No. 88,566, lated Apr/il 6, 1869.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-DRIER.

The Schedule referred tain these Letters Patent and making part of the sarna 1 '0 whomtt may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER HAUSE, of Tecumseh, in the county of Lenawee, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes- Drying Apparatus; and I do declare that the follow.-

ing is a true and accurate description thereof, reference' being had to the accompanying drawings, andto the letters of reference markedthereon, and being apart of this specification. v

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of clothes-driers which are operated by a person, in one position, unexposed, and consists in the employment of certain devices, by means of which the line may be tightened or slackened, as may be desired.

A, in the drawings, represents a cog-wheel, of any proper size, rigidly secured to a suitable shaft journalled int-o the frame B.-

Upon this shaft is also secured the spool, or reel C, upon which towind the clothes-line.

D is another cog-wheel, ofthe same size as the wheel A, similarly journalled, and provided with a like spool, or reel, E, upon which to wind the line, by means of which the clothes-line is extended.

These wheels A and D are so placed, relative to each other, that they engage with each other, the one communicating the motion desired, from the crankF to the other.

G is a slide, each end of which is slotted to engage with the two shafts upon which the cog-wheels are -secured. This slide is properly secured to the frame B, and its use is, that when engaging with the lower shaft, it holds it in position, and the cog-wheel A in gear with the similar wheel D.

His a spring, fastened to thelower part of the frame B, its upper end being slotted to engage with the lower shaft, which is provided with a shoulder for that purpose. -Its use is, that when the slide G is disengaged from the lower shaft, and engaged with the upper one, the spring presses against the shoulder of the lower shaft, and throws it forward in its bearings suiiciently to allow the lower cog-wheel to be thrown out of gear with the upper wheel.

The frame B, with its above-described attachments, may be secured to the jamb-casing of a door, or in any other proper position, and so arranged that a person can stand in the door-way, or sheltered position, and hang clothes upon the line. v

I is a wire, one endof 4which isf secured to the top ofthe frame B, and the other end also secured to 'a suitable post, J, which may be placed at any suitable or desired distance away from the house.

This wire is designed as al rest, upon which travels the danged wheel K, to which is secured the supporting-arm` L, which, at it'slower end, is looped around the clothes-line M, and is designed to sustain the clothesline in its position, and prevent it deflecting toward the ground by the weight ofthe clothes. One of these supports K and L shouldbe provided for about every twenty feet of clothes-line.

' N is aline, of any suitable material which will hear exposure tothe weather. v

Its outer end is secured to the, outer end of the clothes-line, and passes thence over the pulleys 0, which are placed, at any desired distance apart, upon thetpost J, and thence is l'ed and attached to the spool, or reel E. l

M is a clothes-line, wound upon the spool, or reel O, its outer end being secured to the end of the line N, as heretofore described, which line should he twice the length of the clothes-line M.

The operator, wishing to hang out clothes, has the clothes-line wound up on lits reel. By turning the'crank, a portion thereof is nnwouud, and extended outward by means of the line N, which, by the Vsame motion of the crank, is wound up ou the upper reel. In this way,lthe clothes-line may be extended as 4far as necessary, the operator hanging the clothes upon it as it passes outward. Reversing this motion, the clothes-line is wound up on its reel, the operator removing the clothes as the line passes inward, when the clothes-line will be sheltered, dry, and clean for future use.

The spring H may be prolonged to form a lever, by means of which the geared wheels may be the more readily thrown out of their engagement with each other,- when there is a heavy strain upon the lower of said geared wheels, by reason ofthe weight of clothes upon the clothes-line.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters latent, is-

The spool G E, with gear-wheels A D, when operated as described, by means ofthe slide G and spring H, and used in connection with the cords M N,'as and p for the purpose described.

' ELMER HAUSE. Witnesses:

` A. S. Do'rY,

WM. K. POWERS. 

